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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4768198" data-attributes="member: 13966">For one thing, it lets me play despite the fact that I have no face-to-face group anymore.  I live at almost the opposite end of the country now from where my friends live, and it's not easy to get a new, let alone consistent, gaming group together.  Particularly for any given game system and day/time slot.  My few attempts here in Arizona have flopped, after a few weeks or a few months.  I can far more easily find a group online who's game and style are at least acceptable to me.  I've now been playing and DMing with a particular group over OpenRPG for the past 7-8 years.  And have played briefly with several other groups online.Secondly, it's possible to find a game or start a game at any given day and time that I'm available and have access to my computer.  Sometimes it means I'm gaming with folks from the other side of the U.S., or people in Europe, Australia, South America, or wherever.  And that's neat.Thirdly, it's a lot easier (and like a million times more likely) to find people for a game other than D&D or another major system.  Even if it's still not particularly easy to do so.Primarily it's just #1, but #2 and #3 are nice aspects as well.  And even if I still lived in my hometown, my friends are flaky about gaming so I hardly got to play much D&D with them, let alone anything else, so I was starting to seek out additional groups or means of gaming even when I was there.I game primarily over OpenRPG now, which is essentially like a chat-program melded with a map and some tools like a diceroller and character sheet/notes stuff (in the form of nodes).  But for the past year or two I've been PbPing on EN World as well (which is very slow and unreliable), and I've tried a few PBeMs before but they proved even more unreliable.</blockquote>

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